W. B. Godbey - Enter His Rest

so clearly that he can explain it to others.
(2.) They are lucidly experimental, I. e., bearing constantly on Christian experience, which is so preeminently
important. If you would pass through the pearly gates, the Bible must go through your heart and shine
out in your life. Our preaching should be constantly, earnestly and explicitly experimental, as otherwise it is
intangible, impracticable and of no substantial availability. The whole Bible is rigidly experimental and our
preaching must be its veritable facsimile. These Commentaries are the very thing to feed your own soul and
make you he efficient dispenser of soul pabulum to others.
(3.) They are also strictly practical, bringing the precious and infallible Word into constant availability so we
can utilize its heavenly wisdom in our daily living. The Bible is really every man's guide-book, the infallible
director of the pilgrim prosecuting his toiling march along the King's highway of holiness in this world of sin
and sorrow, to the glorious and eternal rest which awaits the faithful probationer beyond the range of tempest
and sorrow “where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.”
“Oh! 'tis sweet to think, hereafter
When the spirit leaves this sphere,
Love with deathless wings shall waft her,
To those she long hath mourned for here.
“Hearts from which 'twas death to sever,
Eyes this world can ne'er restore,
There as warm, as bright as ever,
Shall greet us and be lost no more.”
(4.) They are not critical. I have kept close company with all of the prominent critics of Christendom from
the Apostolic Fathers down to the present, who day and night, like my predecessors, have written critically, but
the Lord did not so lead me. He used some of my scholarly holiness brethren to advise me to leave out the
critical phase, which is the most prominent in all of the older commentaries. They start out and tell you what this
critic says, what another says, etc. The reader goes ahead and reads the expositions of the different critics, gets
bewildered, and actually reaches nothing tangible and utilizable. These Commentaries, instead of perplexing
you with criticisms, explain the Word in a plain style so that you can feed on it in your own soul and dispense it
to the hungry around you.
(5.) They are non-sectarian. I do not believe any really candid person can read them and locate the author
with any of the sects or denominations. Where does the non-sectarian and undenominational part come in? From
the simple fact that the Bible is positively free from sectarianism and denominationality. Of course we have all
come into the world and grown up under some sectarian influences, but it is a conceded fact that real
sanctification saves us from carnality in all its forms and phases, and that includes sectarianism.
(6.) They are pre-eminently adapted to all who feel called of God directly or indirectly to dispense the
glorious Gospel of His once humiliated but now glorified Son. That Son is now enthroned at His right hand,
coronated, sceptered and interceding for a lost world, which He, in His wonderful condescending mercy, by His
vicarious substitutionary atonement redeemed forever from sin, death and Hell, having so triumphantly
conquered all of our enemies as to eternally preclude the faintest apology for the damnation of a solitary soul.
Most transcendently important, interesting and delightful is the glorious privilege of dispensing this message of
life and salvation to the lost millions now thronging the broad and frequented road down to a devil's hell. They
are manipulated, deluded, hoaxed and bamboozled by millions of excarnate demons thronging the air and
incarnate devils, in the form of counterfeit preachers and false prophets, literally inundating every land and
clime in these latter days of the Pentecostal dispensation. This world is now flooded with a population of sixteen
hundred millions of immortal souls, one thousand millions of whom are sitting in heathen darkness, and
enveloped in the thralldom of death. Human longevity has been cut down from a thousand years in the
antediluvian ages and a hundred years in the post-diluvian, to the fleeting span of only twenty-four in India and
but little more in other heathen lands. Thus we have now a thousand incentives playing on every intelligently
and victoriously saved soul to rally to the rescue of his perishing comrades, who by millions on all sides are
precipitating themselves into Hell at race horse speed. Since the glorious Gospel, with which the blessed Bible
is flooded from Alpha to Omega, is God's predestined medium of rescue for every fallen son and daughter of